It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys nigripes weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys nigripes (Oligoryzomys nigripes) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys nigripes is from the family Muridae (genus: Oligoryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.1 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Oligoryzomys nigripess have 3 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Oligoryzomys nigripes, also known as the black-footed colilargo or the black-footed pygmy rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. Oligoryzomys nigripes is a species that has been further divided into different sister taxa throughout history.It is found in different countries in South America. It is a large species with long ears, dark yellow to dark brown upperparts, sharply delimited from the whitish underparts, and often a pink girdle on the chest. This species of rat spends much of its life among the trees. The karyotype is 2n = 62, FNa = 78–82.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Little Indian field mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Mearns’s pouched mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil with a weight of 54 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole with a weight of 75 grams
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Painted big-eared mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Northern water rat with a weight of 54 grams
- Neacomys guianae with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys nigripes:
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Western shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Niobe’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- New Holland mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Oligoryzomys nigripes:
- Fringed myotis with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Oligoryzomys nigripes: